RAMALLAH, June 7 (JMCC) - Senior Israeli officers have called in an open letter for an internal probe of Israel's boarding of a fleet of aid ships last week, which resulted in the killing of nine Turkish activists.

We believe that the operation ended in a disaster on a military and diplomatic level, the reserve officers, who served as commanders of navy ships, wrote in the letter.

We do not agree with the claims that there was an intelligence gap that caused the outcome. In addition, we do not accept the claim that there was a 'PR failure' and believe that the formula chosen ahead of time was doomed to fail.